Navigating the Lower Saint Lawrence in the 19th Century.

Quebec Gazette #2065 08/11/1804 Page 3, Col 1C.
 
 BY AUCTION. 
      Will be sold on Saturday next, the 10th instant, November, on the wharf of Messrs. Monro & Bell for the benefit of the underwriters:
    The ship Defiance, lately stranded with her sails, anchors, cables, standing and running rigging, masts, yards, boats, stove, cambouse, and all her other furniture and materials.		  
 ALSO 
      The cargo of the said ship consisting of 16613 pieces of staves of the following dimensions and description, viz:  
   5˝ ft. by 1˝ in.   0 8 0   0    
   5˝ ft. by 2    in.   6 0 0   0    
   3˝ ft. by 2    in.   0 9 0 18    
   3˝ ft. by 2˝ in.   1 4 0 14    
   2    ft. by 2˝ in.   0 1 0 14    
   2    ft. by 2    in.   0 0 0   2    
    -----------  
    13 8 1  23    
      The sale will begin precisely at ten o'clock in the forenoon.  
      John Jones,  
      Auctioneer & Broker.  
   Quebec, 17th November, 1804.      
 
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